PISACHA. 391 



crossed beyond middle by a continuous transverse fascia, between 

 it and apical margin a broken macular transverse fascia, and the 

 apical margin (excluding apex) fuscous-brown, two piceous spots 

 enclosing a small brownish-ochraceous space beyond middle of 

 costal area, a fuscous marginal spot at apex, and a piceous spot 

 beyond middle of claval area ; wings hyaline, the venation and 

 outer margin (not reaching anal area) fuscous-brown. 



Length excl, tegm. 8j to 9 ; exp. tegm. '21 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; ^LanAx {Green). 



19S1. Varcia similata, Melkh. (Sassula) Horn. Fnim. C'ei/lou, p. 86 

 (1903). 



" Very like >S'. lcii'h)jl, Melich. (from Cochin China), only differing 

 because the face with the exception of keels (which are pale 

 yellow) is entirely brown-coloured with two pale spots between 

 marginal and lateral keels, the upper one small, the lower one large 

 and somewhat round, on the outer side ot: lateral keels a row of 

 dark dots are observable M'hich are lost in the ground-colour : 

 margins of front and clypeus black, on middle of central keel of 

 clypeus is a black dash and on side of head a large brown spot, 

 wanting in S. l-irhiii ; tegmina vitreous, apical margins extremely 

 faintly coloured with pale yellow, a dark spot in apical area of 

 clavus and two black marginal spots bounding the pale yellow 

 stigma on the costal margin, costal membrane broader than costal 

 cell, traversed by 15-16 transverse veins, in costal cell two 

 yellowish- white transverse veins, remaining a eins black ; in clavus 

 there is one transverse vein, several transverse veins near apex, 

 and sometimes a transverse vein joining both branches of the fork 

 which is inconstant ; wings slightly darkly bordered posteriorly, 

 a forked vein in anal area ; abdomen and legs as in /S. I'irbyV 

 (Melichar.) 



" Length, $ , 15 ; exp. tegm. -J4 millim.' 



Hab. Ceylon ; Henaratgoda (^de Melicliar). 



I have had no opportunity of seeing this species. 



Genus PISACHA, nov. 



Type, P. narja. Dist. 



Distribution. British India. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide as pronotum ; eyes rotun- 

 dately elongate, placed behind vertex and on each side of the 

 protruding pronotum ; vertex broader than long, its lateral margins 

 laminately ridged : face much longer than broad, its basal margin 

 centrally angularly sinuate, moderately pronounced central and 

 sublateral longitudinal ridges becoming evanescent posteriorly^ 

 and with two central curved contiguous caringe before clypeus 

 which is centrally ridged ; pi'onotum strongly convexly produced 

 in front, its posterior margin strongly concave ; pronotum long. 



